The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations says a draft UN treaty to regulate the multibillion-dollar international arms trade contains legal shortcomings. Mohammad Khazaei said in an address to the final UN conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in New York on Thursday that despite efforts by Iran to rectify various legal flaws in the draft ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran, Syria and North Korea on Friday prevented the adoption of the first international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade, complaining that it was flawed and failed to ban weapons sales to rebel groups. To get around the blockade, British U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant sent the draft treaty ...